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- catalog abstract ""Beautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also - and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction - through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory." "Since the publication of James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987, chaos theory has been taken up by a wide variety of literary critics and other scholars of the arts. While considering the relationship between chaos theory and recent American fiction, Beautiful Chaos details basic assumptions about orderly and dynamic systems and the various manifestations of chaos theory in literature, including mimesis, metaphor, model, and metachaotics. It also explains particular features of orderly and dynamic systems, including entropy, bifurcation and turbulence, noise and information, scaling and fractals, iteration, and strange attractors."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b11936395.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Beautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also - and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction - through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory."".
- catalog description ""Since the publication of James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987, chaos theory has been taken up by a wide variety of literary critics and other scholars of the arts. While considering the relationship between chaos theory and recent American fiction, Beautiful Chaos details basic assumptions about orderly and dynamic systems and the various manifestations of chaos theory in literature, including mimesis, metaphor, model, and metachaotics. It also explains particular features of orderly and dynamic systems, including entropy, bifurcation and turbulence, noise and information, scaling and fractals, iteration, and strange attractors."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Dynamic Fiction and the Field of Action: Mimesis, Metaphor, Model, and Metachaotics -- Orderly Systems: Growth, Competition, and Transgression -- Entropic Crisis, Blockage, Bifurcation, and Flow -- Turbulence, Stochastic Processes, and Traffic -- Energy, Noise, and Information -- Juxtapositional Symmetry: Recursion, Scaling, and Fractals -- Iteration -- Strange Attractors -- Synoptic Study: "The Coded Dots of Life."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxxi, 206 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0791447413 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791447421 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in postmodern culture".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog subject "813/.5409384 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.C4 S58 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Dynamic Fiction and the Field of Action: Mimesis, Metaphor, Model, and Metachaotics -- Orderly Systems: Growth, Competition, and Transgression -- Entropic Crisis, Blockage, Bifurcation, and Flow -- Turbulence, Stochastic Processes, and Traffic -- Energy, Noise, and Information -- Juxtapositional Symmetry: Recursion, Scaling, and Fractals -- Iteration -- Strange Attractors -- Synoptic Study: "The Coded Dots of Life."".
- catalog title "Beautiful chaos : chaos theory and metachaotics in recent American fiction / Gordon E. Slethaug.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".